Exile vs. London Calling ? -- Predict the 1970s Album Poll winner!

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I'm sure the polling trend will continue, reverse-chronologically...

so, I'm thinking -- will the 70s album poll come down to a battle of the double albums, London Calling (even though, not really loved round these parts) vs. Exile on Main Street ?

Or will Neil Young's fanbase rally around one of his many 70s classics (Tonight's the Night, On the Beach, Rust Never Sleeps, After the gold Rush)???

Or something else .. Big Star? randy newman? Led Zeppelin? Black Sabbath? Caetano Veloso??

Thoughts?

― Matt Sab (Matt Sab), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

man, the '70s... that was a trip

― supercub, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Unknown Pleasures

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

London Calling may have been recorded in the 70s, but it came out in 80.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Unknown Pleasures, aye. The idea that either of the two albums mentioned in the thread title might beat it seems very odd to me.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

London Calling, Nov 1979.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

"Exile on Main Street" is a a million times better than "London Calling" but it's still not the best album in 70s

― Didoismus (Dada), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Whatever it is, there'll be a load of people whining that there wasn't enough Hip hop in the top 10.

― Bidfurd, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Parliament - Mothership Connection

― Didoismus (Dada), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)

"London Calling may have been recorded in the 70s, but it came out in 80."

"London Calling, Nov 1979."

November '79 in the UK, January '80 in the US.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

and so just cos it was released later in the US that makes it an 80's album ?

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

but talking book came out in 1972, so who cares when london calling came out?

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

It should be Led Zeppelin IV, but I'd take Exile over London Calling....

Rumours will be high on the list as well....Marquee Moon prolly too....

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

blood on the tracks also maybe ?

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

".... and so just cos it was released later in the US that makes it an 80's album ? "

I don't think so, but then I'm a Limey (as, of course, were The Clash). Someone really needs to break the news to Rolling Stone 'though.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i always found funny that they started by despising the big rock acts such as the stones and the beatles and pretty soon, did just the same with big tours, ambitious double/triple albums, etc...not a critic though, as i like some of their stuffs and especially london calling.

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

London Calling actually came out in mid-Dec. 1979 in the U.S. (AMG sez Dec. 14)

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Funny, I was reading the booklet that came with the 25th Anniversary Edition last night and it said the same as I've always understood - that it didn't come out until 1980 in the US.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

is it REALLy important whether it came out late 79 or early 80 ???
anyway, i know it's on another thread but is it worth buying the 25th anniversary version if you already have the normal version ?

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

New York Times, January 4, 1980: Although it's only been available as an import for a couple of weeks and won't be released domestically for a couple of weeks more, the Clash's "London Calling" still counts symbolically as the first important rock album of the 1980's....

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

"is it REALLy important whether it came out late 79 or early 80 ???"

Well, when we're deciding whether it should be treated as a 1970's release or a 1980's release, I'd say it was pretty darned fundamental!

"i know it's on another thread but is it worth buying the 25th anniversary version if you already have the normal version ?"

Depends how much you like the normal version.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

While Unknown Pleasures will likely place high, I doubt it will win, not for lack of quality but more for the way the poll is structured.

The poll is a popularity contest, moreso than a judgement of quality.

This is why it is likely radiohead will win, or place high, in the 90s poll.

I don't think I'm making my point clearly ....

― Matt Sab (Matt Sab), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

Why not bring this one back too?

― Matt Sab (Matt Sab), Sunday, 16 January 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

Isn't Funhouse one of the most loved albums around here? I'd expect that to place pretty highly.

― whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Sunday, 16 January 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

If London Calling beats Exile OR Funhouse, I am going to hang myself.

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 16 January 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

That's what another Ian said in 1980.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 16 January 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

I never thought of Curtis as a Stones guy.

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Monday, 17 January 2005 05:04 (twenty years ago)

Look at how he dances, dude. That's completely Jaggertarded.

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Monday, 17 January 2005 05:13 (twenty years ago)

I say "London Calling" came out in '79--I mean doesn't England count or nothing?

*I* think the best pop album of the '70s is "There's a Riot Goin' On," you know, but it won't win. It's my favorite album ever, actually. In my top 5 would be fairly predictable stuff like Parsons' "Grievous," the third Big Star album, "Call Me," "One Nation under a Groove." Simple man that I am.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

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